Wendell wright



WENDELL WRIGHT, oir NEW YORK, N. Y.

l SPRING BED-BOTTOM.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 12,111, dated December 19', 1854.

To all rwhom it may concern.'

Be it' known that I, WENDELL WRIGHT, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improve ment in Mattress orSpringBottom Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication, in which-Figure l, is a central vertical longitudinal section of a bedstead withmy improvements. Fig. 2, is a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference in eac-h of the two figures indicatecorresponding parts.

The nature of my invention consists: in

making the bottom, upon which the bed or mattress rests, of wood, and ina great number of separate and independent sections, and arranging eachand all of said sections upon ordinary spiral springs placed aroundcentral guide rods, secured to the center ofsaid section, and playingfreely up'and down in holes cut through the slats or bars of thebedstead, and also providing each and all of the section with two otherguide and bracing rods, which also play up and down in holes cut throughthe bars of the bedstead and keep said sections from having lateral playwhile the weight is upon the bed or mattress.

By thus making the bedstead bottom in sections, all the parts can beeasily removed independently of one another, and cleansed with ease andfacility, and when the parts are again properly arranged for use, andthe mattress is placed on them, a free circulation of air is admittedthrough the spaces between the sections, and the mattress ventilated ina very perfect manner.

I am also enabled to use the ordinary spiral springs in place of thedouble conical springs, which are very expensive, and will not endureany more strain than the common spiral springs when said spiral springsare arranged and employed in the manner herein described. c

This arrangement likewise avoids the necessity of arranging the springsin a frame having its top and bottom covered with Sacking stui, andconsequently, so good a scribe it more minutely.

ceal themselves, is not offered.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use' my invention, Iwill proceed to de- A, A, A, A, represent the posts of the bedstead; B,B, B, B, the side and end rails; and C, C, C, C, C, the slats or barswhich sustain the sectional bottom. `These slats are arranged in theordinary manner, and are capable of being taken out, when desirable.

D, designates the square boards forming the sections of the elasticbottom.

E, E, and F, represent the guide rods for preventing the sections havinglateral play. These guide rods are attached fast to the square boards,D, and move freely up and down in the holes, a, a, and b, cut throughthe bars, C, as represented.A

AGr, represents the spiral springs, for sustaining the sections andmaking them elasticthese springs are arranged on the central guide rod,F, and fit in the seats, d, cut in the bars, C, as represented. Thesesprings, by being used in the manner shown, in connection with the guiderods, E, E, F, and the square boards, D, answer as well for the purposeherein shown, and last as long as double conical springs, which are farmore expensive.

C, represents a series of Ventilating holes cut through the boards, D.Ventilation is also secured by arranging the sections a short distanceapart in the manner shown in the drawing.

To prevent the holes for the guide rods to play in, being occupied bybed bugs, it is well to coat the wood around the same with soap. Themot-ion of the rods, up and down, however, will, in a measure, destroyor drive them out of said holes.

The elastic bottoms heretofore used, cannot be taken apart, so as to bewashed and cleaned on their interior sides, and again properly arrangedwith ease and facility; and in fact, to my knowledge, they are notconstructed at all with this object in view, and consequently bed bugshave a chance to accumulate and conceal themselves within the same. Bymy arrangement, every part of the elastic bottom can be taken apart,washed, and again `put together, with the chancev for bed bugs toaccumulate and con greatest ease and facility, as must be eVisections-incombination With the manner dent from the drawing. herein shown anddescribed, of arranging 10 What I claim as my invention, and desire saidsections, for the purposes set forth. to secure by Letters Patent is 5The manner herein described of making WENDELL WRIGHT' the elastic bottomof bedsteads, of Wood, Witnesses: and in a great number of separa-te andin- S. H. WALES,

dependent square, or other suitable shaped J. W. I-IAMIL/roN.y

